A triband is a

vexillological Vexillology ( ) is the study of the history, symbolism and usage of flags or, by extension, any interest in flags in general.Smith, Whitney. ''Flags Through the Ages and Across the World'' New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. Print. The word is a synth ...

style which consists of three stripes arranged to form a flag. These stripes may be two or three colors, and may be charged with an emblem in the middle stripe.

Design

Outside of the name, which requires three bands of color, there are no other requirements for what a triband must look like, so there are many flags that look very different from each other but are all considered tribands. Some triband flags (e.g. those of

Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland") , image_map = , map_caption = , capit ...

and

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

) have their stripes positioned horizontally, while others (e.g. that of

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...

) position the stripes vertically. Often the stripes on a triband are of equal length and width, though this is not always the case, as can be seen in the flags of Colombia and

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

. Symbols on tribands may be

seals Seals may refer to: * Pinniped, a diverse group of semi-aquatic marine mammals, many of which are commonly called seals, particularly: ** Earless seal, or "true seal" ** Fur seal * Seal (emblem), a device to impress an emblem, used as a means of a ...

, such as on the Belizean flag, or any manner of emblems of significance to the area the flag represents, such as in the flags of

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

and

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to Lebanon–Syria border, the north and east and Israel to Blue ...

. A triband is also a tricolor if the three stripes on the flag are all different colors, rather than two being the same color. Examples of tricolor flags include those of

the Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

and

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

Gallery

File:Flag of Afghanistan (1928).svg, The

flag of Afghanistan The national flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan ( ps, د افغانستان بیرغ; prs, پرچم افغانستان), also used as the flag of the Taliban, consists of a white field with a black '' Shahada''. It was adopted on 15 A ...

(1928), a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Afghanistan (1928–1929).svg, The

(1928-1929), a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Afghanistan (1928-1929) (variant).svg, Variant of the

(1928-1929), a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Afghanistan (17 Jan 1929 - 13 Oct 1929).svg, The

(1929), a charged vertical triband. File:1824 Flag.svg, The Alamo Flag, a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of the Republic of Alba.svg, The flag of the

Republic of Alba The Republic of Alba () was a revolutionary municipality proclaimed on 26 April 1796, in Alba, Piedmont, when the town was taken by the French army. The municipality had a very short life of only 2 days because, with the Armistice of Cherasco on ...

(1796), a simple vertical triband. File:Flag of the Repubblic of Alba (variant).svg, Variant flag of the

(1796), a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Italian Committee of National Liberation.svg, The flag of the Italian

National Liberation Committee The National Liberation Committee ( it, Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale, CLN) was a political umbrella organization and the main representative of the Italian resistance movement fighting against Nazi Germany’s forces during the German occup ...

(1944), a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Albany, New York.svg, The flag of Albany, New York, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Anaheim, California (2018–present).svg, The flag of

Anaheim, California Anaheim ( ) is a city in northern Orange County, California, part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States Census, the city had a population of 346,824, making it the most populous city in Orange County, the 10th-most ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Andorra.svg, The flag of Andorra, a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Arabia.svg, The flag of the

Arabian Republican movement The Arabian Peninsula, (; ar, شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, , "Arabian Peninsula" or , , "Island of the Arabs") or Arabia, is a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate. ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Kurdish flag (Khoiboun).png, The flag of the

Republic of Ararat The Republic of Ararat, or Kurdish Republic of Ararat,Abbas Vali, ''Essays on the origins of Kurdish nationalism'', Mazda Publishers, 2003, p. 199./ref> ( ku, کۆماری ئارارات, translit=Komara Agiriyê and ku, Komara Araratê) was ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Argentina.svg, The flag of Argentina, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Armenia.svg, The

flag of Armenia , Image = Flag of Armenia.svg , Use = 111000 , Symbol = , Proportion = 1:2 , Adoption = 28 May 1918 (re-adopted on 24 August 1990) , Design = A horizontal tricolour of red, blue, and apricot , Design ...

, a simple hoizontal triband. File:Flag of Austria.svg, The

flag of Austria The flag of Austria ( de-AT, Flagge Österreichs) is the flag of the nation of Austria. It consists of three bands of colour in the following order: red, white, and red. The Austrian flag is considered one of the oldest national symbols sti ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:State flag of Austria (1934–1938).svg, The flag of the

Federal State of Austria The Federal State of Austria ( de-AT, Bundesstaat Österreich; colloquially known as the , "Corporate State") was a continuation of the First Austrian Republic between 1934 and 1938 when it was a one-party state led by the clerical fascist Fa ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Azerbaijan.svg, The

flag of Azerbaijan The national flag of Azerbaijan ( az, Azərbaycan bayrağı), often referred to in Azerbaijani language, Azerbaijani as ( en, Tricolour flag), is a horizontal tricolour (flag), tricolour that features three equally sized bars of bright blue, ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Barbados.svg, The

flag of Barbados The flag of Barbados was designed by Grantley W. Prescod and was officially adopted to represent the nation of Barbados Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Amer ...

, a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Belgium.svg, The flag of Belgium, a simple vertical triband. File:Flag of Belize.svg, The flag of Belize, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Biafra.svg, The

flag of Biafra The flag of Biafra, used by the Republic of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970), consists of a horizontal tricolour of red, black, and green, charged with a golden rising sun over a golden bar. The eleven rays of the sun repres ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Birmingham, Alabama.svg, The

flag of Birmingham, Alabama The flag of Birmingham was designed by Idyl King Sorsby for the occasion of the semicentennial of the city of Birmingham, Alabama in 1921. The flag was officially adopted as the city's flag on August 18, 1925. Design The flag consists of a v ...

, a charged vertical triband. File:Bisexual Pride Flag.svg, The

Bisexual flag The bisexual flag is a pride flag representing bisexuality, bisexual individuals and the bisexual community. The magenta stripe represents attraction to the same sex, while the blue stripe represents attraction to the opposite sex. The purple ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Bolivia (state).svg, The

flag of Bolivia The flag of Bolivia is the national flag of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. It was originally adopted in 1851. The state and war flag is a horizontal tricolor of red, yellow and green with the Bolivian coat of arms in the center. According ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Borough of the Bronx.svg, The flag of

The Bronx The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Y ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg, The

flag of Bulgaria The flag of Bulgaria ( bg, знаме на България, zname na Bǎlgariya) is a tricolour consisting of three equal-sized horizontal bands of (from top to bottom) white, green, and red. The flag was first adopted after the 1877–1878 Rus ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Cabinda Province.svg, The flag of Cabinda Province, Angola, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Cambodia.svg, The

flag of Cambodia The flag of Cambodia ( km, ទង់ជាតិកម្ពុជា, ; ) in its present form was originally adopted in 1948 and readopted in 1993, after the 1993 Cambodian Constituent Assembly election, Constituent Assembly election in 199 ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Cameroon.svg, The

flag of Cameroon The national flag of Cameroon (french: drapeau du Cameroun) was adopted in its present form on 20 May 1975 after Cameroon became a unitary state. It is a vertical tricolour of green, red and yellow, with a five-pointed star in its center. Ther ...

, a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg, The

flag of Canada The national flag of Canada (french: le Drapeau national du Canada), often simply referred to as the Canadian flag or, unofficially, as the Maple Leaf or ' (; ), consists of a red field with a white square at its centre in the ratio of , in ...

, a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Chad.svg, The

flag of Chad The national flag of Chad (french: Drapeau du Tchad; ar, علم تشاد) is a vertical tricolour consisting (left to right) of a blue, a gold and a red field. Since the 1990s, its similarity to the flag of Romania has caused international d ...

, a simple vertical triband. File:Flag of the Cispadane Republic.svg, The flag of the

Cispadane Republic The Cispadane Republic () was a short-lived client republic located in northern Italy, founded in 1796 with the protection of the French army, led by Napoleon Bonaparte. In the following year, it was merged with the Transpadane Republic (former ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Coahuila y Tejas.svg, The flag of

Coahuila y Tejas Coahuila y Tejas, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila y Tejas (), was one of the constituent states of the newly established United Mexican States under its 1824 Constitution. It had two capitals: first Saltillo (1822–1825) f ...

, a charged vertical triband. File:Bandera de la Provincia de Coclé.svg, The flag of

Coclé Province Coclé () is a province of central Panama on the nation's southern coast. The administrative capital is the city of Penonomé. This province was created by the Act of September 12, 1855 with the title of Department of Coclé during the presidenc ...

, Panama, a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Colombia.svg, The

flag of Colombia The national flag of Colombia symbolises Colombian independence from Spain, gained on 20 July 1810. It is a horizontal tricolor of yellow, blue and red. The yellow stripe takes up a half of the flag and the blue and red take up a quarter of t ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Colorado.svg, The

flag of Colorado The flag of Colorado was officially adopted to represent the U.S. state of Colorado on June 5, 1911. The flag, designed by Andrew Carlisle Carson, consists of a fess design of three horizontal stripes of equal width, with the top and bottom str ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Colorado (1911–1964).svg, The

(1911-1964), a charged horizontal triband. File:Conway AR Flag.gif, The flag of Conway, Arkansas, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Crimea.svg, The

flag of Crimea The flag of Crimea (russian: Флаг Крыма, Flag Kryma; uk, Прапор Криму, Prapor Krymu; crh, Qırım bayrağı / Къырым байрагъы) is the flag of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Ukraine and the Republic of Cri ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Croatia.svg, The flag of Croatia, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Croatia (1947–1990).svg, The flag of

SR Croatia The Socialist Republic of Croatia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Hrvatska, Социјалистичка Република Хрватска), or SR Croatia, was a constituent republic and federated state of the Sociali ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Curaçao.svg, The

flag of Curaçao The national flag of Curaçao represents the country of Curaçao as well as the island area within the Netherlands Antilles from 1984 until its dissolution in 2010. The flag is a blue field with a horizontal yellow stripe slightly below the ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Dallas.svg, The flag of Dallas, Texas, a charged horizontal triband. File:Texas Dodson Flag.svg, The Dodson Flag, a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Donetsk People's Republic.svg, The flag of the Donetsk People's Republic, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Herat until 1842.svg, The flag of the Durrani Empire, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of the Dutch West India Company.svg, The flag of the Dutch West India Company, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of East Germany.svg, The

flag of East Germany Like the flags of the Weimar Republic, West Germany, and present-day Germany, the flag of East Germany, the German Democratic Republic, showed the colours black, red and gold. The coat of arms, which, from 1959, was a hammer, compass and wreath ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Ecuador.svg, The flag of Ecuador, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Egypt.svg, The

flag of Egypt The national flag of Egypt (Arabic: ) is a tricolour consisting of the three equal horizontal red, white, and black bands of the Egyptian revolutionary flag that dates back to the 1952 Egyptian Revolution. The flag bears Egypt's national emb ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of El Salvador.svg, The

flag of El Salvador The flag of El Salvador features a horizontal triband of cobalt blue-white- cobalt blue, with the coat of arms centered and entirely contained within the central white stripe. This design of a triband of blue-white-blue is commonly used among ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Estonia.svg, The

flag of Estonia The flag of Estonia ( et, Eesti lipp) is a tricolour featuring three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), black (middle), and white (bottom). In Estonian it is colloquially called the (). The tricolour was already in wide use as the symbol of ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Ethiopia.svg, The flag of Ethiopia, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of France.svg, The flag of France, a simple vertical triband. File:Flag of France (lighter variant).svg, Variant of the flag of France, a simple vertical triband. File:Flag of Free France (1940-1944).svg, The flag of

Free France Free France (french: France Libre) was a political entity that claimed to be the legitimate government of France following the dissolution of the Third Republic. Led by French general , Free France was established as a government-in-exile ...

, a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of French Polynesia.svg, The

flag of French Polynesia The flag of French Polynesia (french: drapeau de la Polynésie française) is the civil and state flag of the French overseas country French Polynesia. It was adopted in 1984. Description Two red horizontal bands encase a wide white band in a 1 ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of French Sudan (1958–1959).svg, The flag of French Sudan, a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Gabon.svg, The

flag of Gabon The flag of Gabon (french: drapeau du Gabon) is a tricolour consisting of three horizontal green, yellow and blue bands. Adopted in 1960 to replace the previous colonial flag containing the French Tricolour at the canton, it has been the flag ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Gagauzia.svg, The

flag of Gagauzia The flag of Gagauzia ( gag, Gagauz Yerin bayraa, ro, Steagul Găgăuziei, russian: Флаг Гагаузии) has served as an official symbol of the Gagauz Territorial Unit since 1995, and is recognized as a regional symbol by Moldova. Popularl ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Germany (1867–1918).svg, The

flag of the German Empire The Flag of the German Empire, or Imperial Flag, Realm Flag, ( German: ''Reichsflagge)'' is a combination between the flag of Prussia and the flag of the Hanseatic League. The flag was first used as the flag of the North German Confederation wh ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Germany.svg, The

flag of Germany The national flag of Germany is a tricolour consisting of three equal horizontal bands displaying the national colours of Germany: black, red, and gold (german: Schwarz-Rot-Gold). The flag was first sighted in 1848 in the German Confederat ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Germany (state).svg, Variant of the

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Ghana.svg, The

flag of Ghana The national flag of Ghana consists of a horizontal triband of Red, Gold, and Green. It was designed in replacement of the British Gold Coast's Blue Ensign. The flag was adopted upon the independence of the Dominion of Ghana on March 6, 1957. I ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Ghana (1964–1966).svg, The

(1964-1966), a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of the Gran Colombia (1819-1820).svg, The

flag of Gran Colombia The flag of Gran Colombia was based on Francisco de Miranda's tricolour, which served as the national flag of the First Republic of Venezuela. The general design of the Gran Colombian flag later served as the model for the current flags of Colombi ...

(1819-1820), a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of the Gran Colombia (1820-1821).svg, The

(1820-1821), a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of the Gran Colombia.svg, The

(1821-1830), a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Guatemala.svg, The

flag of Guatemala The flag of Guatemala, often referred to as "Pabellón Nacional" (literally, "National Flag") or "Azul y Blanco" ("Blue and White") features two colors: Sky blue and white. The two Sky blue stripes represent the fact that Guatemala is a lan ...

, a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Guinea.svg, The

flag of Guinea The national flag of Guinea (french: drapeau de la Guinée) was adopted on 10 November 1958, with the publication of the country's first Constitution. Design The colors of the flag were adapted from those of the Rassemblement Démocratique ...

, a simple vertical triband. File:Flag of Honduras.svg, The

flag of Honduras The flag of Honduras consists of three equal horizontal stripes of turquoise, white and turquoise, with five turquoise stars in a quincuncial pattern at the centre of the middle stripe. The two outer bands represent the Pacific Ocean and the Ca ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of India.svg, The flag of India, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Iowa.svg, The

flag of Iowa The flag of the state of Iowa is a vertical tricolor flag designed by Mrs. Dixie Cornell Gebhardt in 1917. Iowa legislators officially adopted the flag in 1921. History The State of Iowa did not have a banner for the first 75 years of its co ...

, a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Iowa (variant).svg, The

(1921-2018), a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Iraq.svg, The

flag of Iraq The flag of Iraq ( ar, علم العراق Kurdish languages: الله اكبر) includes the three equal horizontal red, white, and black stripes of the Pan-Arab colors, Arab Liberation flag, with the phrase "Allahu Akbar, God is the greatest" ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Ireland.svg, The flag of Ireland, a simple vertical triband. File:Flag of Italy.svg, The flag of Italy, a simple vertical triband. File:Civil Ensign of Italy.svg, The civil ensign of Italy, a charged vertical triband. File:State Ensign of Italy.svg, The state ensign of Italy, a charged vertical triband. File:Naval ensign of Italy.svg, The

naval ensign of Italy A navy, naval force, or maritime force is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral, or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions. It inc ...

, a charged vertical triband. File:War Flag of Italy.svg, The war flag of Italy, a simple vertical triband. File:Flag of Italy (1861-1946) crowned.svg, The flag of the

Kingdom of Italy The Kingdom of Italy ( it, Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 1946, when civil discontent led to an institutional referendum to abandon the monarchy and f ...

, a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Côte d'Ivoire.svg, The

flag of Ivory Coast The national flag of Ivory Coast (french: drapeau de la Côte d'Ivoire) is a tricolor flag consisting of equal bands of orange ( hoist side), white, and green. The proportions of the flag are 2:3. It is the national emblem of the Republic of ...

, a simple vertical triband. File:Flag of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.svg, The

flag of the Kazakh SSR The flag of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted by the Kazakh government on 24 January 1953. The flag resembles the flag of the Soviet Union in defaced form with a 2/9 horizontal blue (azure) bar in the lower part of the flag and th ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Kyiv Oblast.svg, The flag of

Kyiv Oblast Kyiv Oblast ( uk, Ки́ївська о́бласть, translit=Kyïvska oblast), also called Kyivshchyna ( uk, Ки́ївщина), is an oblast (province) in central and northern Ukraine. It surrounds, but does not include, the city of Kyiv, w ...

, a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Laos.svg, The

flag of Laos The flag of Laos ( Lao: ທຸງຊາດລາວ; ''thungsad Lāo'') consists of three horizontal stripes, with the middle stripe in blue being twice the height of the top and bottom red stripes. In the middle is a white disc, the diameter of ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Latvia.svg, The

flag of Latvia The national flag of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas karogs) was used by independent Latvia from 1918 until the country was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940. Its use was suppressed during Soviet rule. On 27 February 1990, shortly before the country ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Lebanon.svg, The

flag of Lebanon The national flag of Lebanon ( ar, علم لبنان) is formed of two horizontal red stripes enveloping a horizontal white stripe. The white stripe is twice the height (width) of the red ones (ratio 1:2:1)—a Spanish fess. The green cedar (L ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Lesotho.svg, The

flag of Lesotho The current national flag of Lesotho, adopted on the 40th anniversary of Lesotho's independence on 4 October 2006, features a horizontal blue, white, and green tricolour with a black ''mokorotlo'' (a Basotho hat) in the center. The design is int ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Libya.svg, The

flag of Libya The national flag of Libya was originally introduced in 1951, following the creation of the Kingdom of Libya. It was designed by Omar Faiek Shennib and approved by King Idris Al Senussi who comprised the UN delegation representing the three re ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Lithuania.svg, The

flag of Lithuania The national flag of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos vėliava) consists of a horizontal tricolour of yellow, green, and red. It was adopted on 25 April 1918 during Lithuania's first period of independence (in the 20th century) from 1918 to 1940, wh ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (1953–1988).svg, The flag of the Lithuanian SSR, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of the Luhansk People's Republic.svg, The flag of the

Luhansk People's Republic The Luhansk or Lugansk People's Republic (russian: Луга́нская Наро́дная Респу́блика, Luganskaya Narodnaya Respublika, ; abbreviated as LPR or LNR, rus, ЛНР) is a disputed entity created by Russian-backed ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Luxembourg.svg, The

flag of Luxembourg The national flag of Luxembourg ( lb, Lëtzebuerger Fändel; german: Flagge Luxemburgs; french: Drapeau du Luxembourg) consists of three horizontal stripes, red, white and light blue, and can be in 1:2 or 3:5 ratio. It was first used between 184 ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Malawi.svg, The

flag of Malawi The flag of Malawi ( Chichewa: ''mbendera ya Malaŵi'') was officially adopted on 6 July 1964 when the colony of Nyasaland became independent from British rule and renamed itself Malawi. Design The first flag of independent Malawi was adopted ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Mali.svg, The

flag of Mali The national flag of Mali (french: drapeau du Mali) is a tricolour with three equal vertical stripes. From the hoist (the place where the flagpole meets the flag) the colours are green, gold, and red, the pan-African colours. The flag of Mali ...

, a simple vertical triband. File:Flag of the Borough of Manhattan.svg, The flag of

Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...

, a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Mauritania.svg, The

flag of Mauritania The flag of Mauritania ( ar, علم موريتانيا, french: Drapeau de la Mauritanie) is a green field containing a gold star and crescent, with two red stripes at the top and bottom of the field. The original national flag was introduced und ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Mexico.svg, The flag of Mexico, a charged vertical triband. File:Bicentennial Banner of Mississippi.svg, The

flag of Mississippi The flag of Mississippi, also known as the Mississippi flag, consists of a white magnolia blossom surrounded by 21 white stars and the words 'In God We Trust' written below, all put over a blue Canadian pale with two vertical gold borders on a ...

(2020-2021), a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Missouri.svg, The

flag of Missouri The flag of Missouri, often referred to as the Missouri flag, is the state flag of the U.S. state of Missouri. It consists of three equal horizontal tribands of red, white, and blue stripes, with the arms of Missouri in the center. Designed by ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Moldova.svg, The

flag of Moldova The national flag of the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Drapelul Moldovei) is a vertical triband of blue, yellow, and red, charged with the coat of arms of Moldova (an eagle holding a shield charged with an aurochs) on the centre bar. The reverse i ...

, a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (1952–1990).svg, The flag of the Moldavian SSR, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Mongolia.svg, The flag of Mongolia, a charged vertical triband. File:Bandera de la Provincia Monseñor Nouel.svg, The flag of

Monseñor Nouel Province Monseñor Nouel () is a province in the central region of the Dominican Republic. It was split from La Vega province in 1982. Name The province is named after Monseñor Dr. Adolfo Alejandro Nouel y Bobadilla (1862-1937), an Archbishop of Santo ...

, Dominican Republic, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Myanmar.svg, The

flag of Myanmar The State Flag of Republic of the Union of Myanmar was adopted on 21 October 2010. Current flag since 2010 The State flagArticle 437 (a), Chapter , Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, (2008) described in the 2008 Constit ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Nauru.svg, The

flag of Nauru Following the independence of Nauru, the flag of Nauru ( na, anidenin Naoero) was raised for the first time. The flag, chosen in a local design competition, was adopted on independence day, 31 January 1968. The design symbolically depicts Naur ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg, The

flag of the Netherlands The national flag of the Netherlands ( nl, de Nederlandse vlag) is a horizontal tricolour of red, white, and blue. The current design originates as a variant of the late 16th century orange-white-blue '' Prinsenvlag'' ("Prince's Flag"), evo ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of New York City.svg, The

flag of New York City The flags of New York City include the flag of New York City, the respective flags of the boroughs of The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island, and flags of certain city departments. The city flag is a vertical tricolor in bl ...

, a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Nicaragua.svg, The

flag of Nicaragua The flag of Nicaragua was first adopted on September 4, 1908, but not made official until August 27, 1971. It is based on, and inspired by, the flag of the Federal Republic of Central America and flag of Argentina. It is one of only three nati ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Niger.svg, The flag of Niger, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Nigeria.svg, The

flag of Nigeria Work toward freedom led to the formation of a national planning committee, which in 1958 named for a competition to choose a national flag. Thousands of designs were submitted, but the flag of equivalent green-white-green flat stripes, green ...

, a simple vertical triband. File:Flag of Region Autonoma del Atlantico Norte.svg, The flag of North Caribbean Coast, Nicaragua, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of North Ossetia.svg, The flag of Ossetia, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of the UNIA.svg, The

Pan-African flag The Pan-African flag (also known as the Afro-American flag, Black Liberation flag, UNIA flag, and various other names) is a tri-color flag consisting of three equal horizontal bands of (from top down) red, black, and green. The Universal Negr ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:Pansexuality Pride Flag.svg, The

Pansexual flag The pansexual flag is a pink, yellow and cyan flag, designed as a symbol for the pansexual community to increase its visibility and recognition, and distinguish itself from bisexuality. History and use The flag has been in wide use since the e ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Paraguay.svg, The

flag of Paraguay The flag of Paraguay ( es, bandera de Paraguay) was first adopted in 1842. Its design, a red–white–blue triband, was inspired by the colours of the French Tricolour, believed to signify independence and liberty. The flag is unusual beca ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Peru (state).svg, The state flag of Peru, a simple vertical triband. File:Prinsenvlag.svg, The

Prince's Flag The Prince's Flag ( nl, Prinsenvlag) is a Dutch flag, first used in the Dutch Revolt during the late 16th century. The Prince's Flag is based on the flag of Prince William of Orange-Nassau, hence the name. The colours are orange, white and ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Príncipe.svg, The flag of

Príncipe Príncipe is the smaller, northern major island of the country of São Tomé and Príncipe lying off the west coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea. It has an area of (including offshore islets) and a population of 7,324 at the 2012 Census;

, a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Prussia (1892-1918).svg, The

flag of Prussia The state of Prussia had its origins in the separate lands of the Margraviate of Brandenburg and of the Duchy of Prussia. The Margraviate of Brandenburg developed from the medieval Northern March of the Holy Roman Empire, passing to the House ...

(1892-1918), a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Prussia (1918–1933).svg, The

(1918-1933), a charged horizontal triband. File:Dienstflagge Preußen 1933-35.svg, The service flag of Prussia (1933-1935), a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of the Roman Republic (19th century).svg, The flag of the

Roman Republic (1849) ) , capital = Rome , national_anthem = , common_languages = Italian , government_type = Directorial parliamentary republic , official_languages = Italian French Italian , regional_languages = ...

, a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Romania.svg, The flag of Romania, a simple vertical triband. File:Flag of Russia.svg, The

flag of Russia The national flag of Russia (russian: Флаг России, Flag Rossii), also known as the ''State Flag of the Russian Federation'' (russian: Государственный флаг Российской Федерации, Gosudarstvenny fla ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Russia (1991–1993).svg, The

(1991-1993), a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Rwanda.svg, The flag of Rwanda, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.svg, The

flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines The flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a Canadian pale triband consisting of blue, gold, and green bands charged with three green diamonds at the centre. Adopted in 1985 to replace a similar design used from the time of independence, ...

, a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Santa Cruz.svg, The flag of

Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia Santa Cruz () is the largest of the nine constituent departments of Bolivia, occupying about one-third (33.74%) of the country's territory. With an area of , it is slightly smaller than Japan or the US state of Montana. It is located in the ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Schenectady County, New York.svg, The flag of

Schenectady County, New York Schenectady County () is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 158,061. The county seat is Schenectady. The name is from a Mohawk language word meaning "on the other side of the pine lands," a te ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Senegal.svg, The

flag of Senegal flag of Senegal (french: drapeau du Sénégal) is a tricolour consisting of three green, yellow and red bands charged with a five-pointed green star at the centre. Adopted in 1960 to replace the flag of the Mali Federation, it has been the fl ...

, a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Serbia.svg, The

flag of Serbia The flag of Serbia ( sr, Застава Србије, Zastava Srbije), also known as the Tricolour ( sr, тробојка, ''trobojka''), is a tricolour consisting of three equal horizontal bands, red on the top, blue in the middle, and white o ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Serbia (1947–1992); Flag of Montenegro (1946–1993).svg, The flag of

SR Serbia , life_span = 1944–1992 , status = Constituent state of Yugoslavia , p1 = Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia , flag_p1 = Flag of German Reich (1935–1945).svg , p2 ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Sierra Leone.svg, The

flag of Sierra Leone The national flag of Sierra Leone is a tricolour consisting of three horizontal green, white and blue bands. It was adopted in 1961, Sierra Leone's independence year, to replace the British Blue Ensign defaced with the arms of the Crown Colo ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Slovakia.svg, The

flag of Slovakia The current form of the national flag of the Slovak Republic ( sk, Vlajka Slovenskej republiky) was adopted by Slovakia's Constitution, which came into force on 3 September 1992. The flag, like many other flags of Slavic nations, uses Pan-Slavic ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Slovenia.svg, The flag of Slovenia, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Slovenia (1945–1991).svg, The flag of SR Slovenia, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Somaliland.svg, The

flag of Somaliland A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular or quadrilateral) with a distinctive design and colours. It is used as a symbol, a signalling device, or for decoration. The term ''flag'' is also used to refer to the graphic design emp ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of South Africa (1982–1994).svg, The

flag of South Africa (1928–1994) The flag of South Africa from 1928 to 1994 was originally used by the Union of South Africa from 1928 to 1961 and later the Republic of South Africa until 1994. It was also used in South West Africa (today Namibia) until 1990 when the territor ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Bandera de España.svg, The flag of Spain, a charged horizontal triband. File:Statenvlag.svg, The Statenvlag, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Syria.svg, The

flag of Syria As a result of the Syrian Civil War since 2011, there are at least two flags used to represent Syria, used by different factions in the war. The incumbent government of the Syrian Arab Republic led by the Ba'ath Party uses the red-white-black tri ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Tajikistan.svg, The

flag of Tajikistan The national flag of Tajikistan ( tg, Парчами Тоҷикистон / Parçami Tojikiston / پَرچَمِ تاجِیکِستان) was adopted in November 1992, replacing the flag of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic of 1953. The flag is ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Texas Pilot Flag (1839-1845).svg, The civil ensign of the Republic of Texas, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Transnistria (state).svg, The

flag of Transnistria Transnistria is a region in Eastern Europe that is under the effective control of the self-declared Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic but is recognized by the international community as an administrative unit of Moldova, the Administrative-Terr ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Ulster County, New York.png, The flag of

Ulster County, New York Ulster County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. It is situated along the Hudson River. As of the 2020 census, the population was 181,851. The county seat is Kingston. The county is named after the Irish province of Ulster. History ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of the Union of African States (1958-1961).svg, The flag of the

Union of African States The Union of African States (french: Union des États africains), sometimes called the Ghana–Guinea–Mali Union, was a short-lived and loose regional organization formed in 1958 linking the West African nations of Ghana and Guinea as the Un ...

(1958-1961), a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of the Union of African States (1961–1962).svg, The flag of the

(1961-1963), a charged horizontal triband. File:German Olympic flag (1959-1968).svg, The flag of the

United Team of Germany The United Team of Germany (german: Gesamtdeutsche Mannschaft) was a combined team of athletes from West Germany and East Germany that competed in the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Winter and Summer Olympic Games. In 1956, the team also included athletes f ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Venezuela (state).svg, The

flag of Venezuela The current eight stars flag of Venezuela was introduced in 2006. The basic design includes a horizontal tricolour of yellow, blue, and red, dating to the original flag introduced in 1811, in the Venezuelan War of Independence. Further modificat ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Yemen.svg, The

flag of Yemen The flag of Yemen ( ''Alam al-Yaman'') was adopted on May 22, 1990, the day that North Yemen and South Yemen were unified. The flag is essentially the Arab Liberation Flag of 1952, introduced after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 in which Arab ...

, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg, The

flag of Yugoslavia The flag of Yugoslavia / ; sl, zastava Jugoslavije; mk, знаме на Југославија, translit=zname na Jugoslavija was the official flag of the Yugoslav state from 1918 to 1992. The flag's design and symbolism are derived from the ...

, a charged horizontal triband. File:Flag of Yugoslavia (1918–1941).svg, The flag of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a simple horizontal triband. File:Flag of Yukon.svg, The

flag of Yukon A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular or quadrilateral) with a distinctive design and colours. It is used as a symbol, a signalling device, or for decoration. The term ''flag'' is also used to refer to the graphic design empl ...

, a charged vertical triband. File:Flag of Zanzibar (January-April 1964).svg, The flag of SR Zanzibar, a simple horizontal triband.

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